Mr. Grimm

Mr. Grimm is the Grim Reaper who appears throughout the Twisted Metal Series. His bike is called Mr. Grimm and he would officially become the Grim Reaper in 2005. Calypso has been the only person to evade him because he has made some sort of "deal" with him.

Mr. Grimm points his hand towards Calypso, revealing that his arm is only a dirty white bone. In horror, Calypso recognizes who he is:

"NO! NO! It's not time!"

But Mr. Grimm knows it's time, after 100 years of trying to capture the one soul who has evaded you since he became the Grim Reaper. Mr. Grimm would feel as good as the collector of souls can feel. But there is still work to be done...

You live off food. I live off souls. Souls like yours to be exact. When I win this contest. You and everyone else are gonna be my seven course meal. You see, when I win, I'm taking destruction and doom to a whole new level.

The Screaming Soul is one of the strongest special weapons in the game. Any vehicle that is hit by this, will have part of their life forced taken away to be stored for the next shot. It will only aim straight ahead as it has no homing capability.

After winning the tournament, Mr. Grimm would approach Calypso, demanding for his prize. He wants Calypso to satisfy his hunger for souls because "people do not have the tendency to die fast enough". He wants the death rate to rise quicker and his wish is granted. Calypso causes the world to become a battleground and the death toll rises and the population falls greatly. Mr. Grimm would be satisfied until the human race is extinct and is hungry again.

Mr. Grimm is the Grim Reaper in Twisted Metal 3. He rides on his usual motorcycle with a sidecar that has his top demon occasionally co-pilot with. He enters the contest because he wants to become all powerful and feast on Calypso's soul.

"My hunger for souls is now insatiable. I've had my fill of mortals. Now I want to feast on the darkest, most powerful soul imaginable. I will become all-powerful. There will be no escaping my wrath. Let the world beware!"

Mr. Grimm was drafted unto the war when he was only 18 years old, alongside his best friend Benny. They both had just finished high school and were unprepared for what lied in the Vietnam Jungles. They were outnumbered and outclassed and soon their platoons quickly fell. They knew their time would soon be there and they swore to always watch one another back.

Mr. Grimm and his friend , Benny, were drafted into the army and shipped to Vietnam in 1971. During a fight, Benny was severely wounded. While Grimm tried to help his friend, they were found by a Vietnamese soldier and captured, being tossed into a 25-foot pit. An advisor to the Vietnamese kept them locked there, taking pleasure in watching the men starve. The advisor told Grimm that if he wanted to survive, he needed to eat. Grimm understood what the advisor was implying: he wanted to see Grimm cannibalize his dying friend, and dropped a knife in the hole so Grimm could do the deed.
After a week of being in the pit with no food and untreated bullet wounds, Benny died. Grimm was finally forced to cave in and eat his dead friend, believing Ben would have understood his choice. As a sort of deranged memento, he took Ben's skull and wore it as a helmet. Two weeks later, he was rescued. However, when a few of the GIs attempted to remove his helmet; Grimm killed four of them in retaliation before he was finally subdued. He was sent back to America and placed in Blackfield Asylum.

Thirty years later, Calypso visited him, giving him the chance to take revenge on the "man who stole [his] sanity" by entering his contest.

Once he has won the tournament, Mr. Grimm wishes for a "reunion" with the adviser who was responsible for him going mad. He would find him tied to a chair in front of a table with plate and silverware and a hatchet. It is assumed that Mr. Grimm had ate his adviser because he had a "special craving...for human flesh" over the years.

Mr. Grimm is, in fact, the Grim Reaper himself. At some point during his centuries of work, he attempted to devour a soul instead of taking it to its next destination. He then became hooked, so he needed to devour more and more souls. He soon found himself absorbing more souls than he was delivering. This craving drove Mr. Grimm to the point of insanity. Now, realizing he can't take it anymore, Mr. Grimm enters Twisted Metal hoping that Calypso can give someone else the job of being the Grim Reaper.

Mr. Grimm was tired of being the Grim Reaper and having to collect souls, knowing that the hunger burns him. He wishes that he wasn't the Grimm Reaper anymore and that someone else would while he can live a human life.

Calypso would grant the wish by turning him into his 26 year old self once more, while turning a little girl into the Grim Reaper. Happy to be alive, Grimm would run into the street blindly and get hit by an oncoming truck. The new Grim Reaper would come to collect his soul.

Mr. Grimm returns in Twisted Metal as the leader of The Skulls faction. He will be one of the four story mode characters as well. Unlike in past games, Grimm is not a grim reaper. Instead he is a Black criminal and murderer who lost his father while doing a stunt. He blames his father's death for the bad life he was raised in and looks to win the contest so that he can go back to the night of the jump before his dad did the jump to stop him.